DPA 2025 Annual Conference

Cara Lane Cape is the Executive Staff Advisor at the Department of Public Advocacy (DPA). Ms. Cape received both a BSW and a Master of Social Work from Campbellsville University. Ms. Cape began her career at Protection and Permanency in Grayson County, where she was chief investigator... Read More →

Stephanie Corum is Supervising Attorney in the Nicholasville Trial Office. Stephanie began her career in Illinois where she was a public defender for 13 years where she won an acquittal in a heavily media covered animal cruelty case where a puppy was put in an oven. In 2021, after... Read More →

Robin Rawlins began her career with the Louisville Metro Public Defender’s Office as a criminal defense investigator in February 2013. She was appointed to the position of Investigation Division Chief in 2018. In June 2019, she was awarded the Department of Advocacy’s Rosa Parks... Read More →